AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland recently spoke with Sports Illustrated on a number of topics including his match with International Champion “The Aerial Assassin” Will Ospreay at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door.
Strickland said, “I’m proud of the story we told in that match.” “It was a perfect whirlwind. It was Will’s first main event pay-per-view in AEW, fans were waiting for it, and people didn’t know who was going to win. Was it Swerve’s time? Or was Will going to keep riding his hot streak and win the title? That’s a match we’ve wanted for a long time, and the timing was right. We weren’t waiting, we wanted this moment. We wanted to see the best–the International champ against the world champ. It was two forces facing off–the two best going at it.”
